The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent… — David Popenoe Copy Share Image
This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I… — Boris Nemtsov Copy Share Image
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the… — William Galston Copy Share Image
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel… — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e.… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
![“Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ec/vladimir-putin-261_causes_sanctions-have-nothing-to-do-with-this-r_1424535.jpg)
![“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.” quote by Abby May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a0/abby-may-alcott-62027_busy_on-her-recently-widowed-father-s-much-yo_2360762.jpg)
![“I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.” quote by Phil Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d11/phil-jones-4350_climate-change_i-ve-just-completed-mike-s-mann-nature-t_1301781.jpg)
